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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

Sheffield Hallam University

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AutoTopography: what can physical mementos tell us about digital memories?

Type
E - Conference contribution
Name of conference/published proceedings
CHI '08 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Volume number
n/a
Issue number
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First page of article
53
ISSN of proceedings
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Year of publication
2008
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information

The aim of this research was to understand how people develop attachments to objects in order to support the development of similar attachments to digital content such as emails and other personal content.

This paper received Best Paper Nomination at the CHI international conference, the most relevant forum for research in human-computer interaction. It is considered a seminal work in this niche research area alongside contributions from Microsoft Research Cambridge and the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. Since its publication the paper has been downloaded 1049 times (data from ACM digital library, correct at 04.10.2013).

As part of the EU project, 'Memoir: memories of things past', this work was presented by Professor Steve Whittaker at Google (recorded as part of Google Tech Talk) and Stanford University. Talks are available at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5ufIveIEKc (relevant part starting minute 9) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-TuF2i49v8). Overall, the video has been watched by over 10,000 people (data from YouTube, correct at 04.10.2013).

Interdisciplinary
Yes
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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